History Awesome / TheLordOfTheRings

* Is it possible for a sword to have this? More specifically the sword that Merry picks up in the Barrow-Downs that he uses to cripple the frikkin' Witch-King Of Angmar, which then crumbles into dust after he uses it, Tolkien describes it as fulfilling its task, considering that while it may be an Elven sword it is no Glamdring or Narsil this troper finds this to be a minor weapon's CMOA.

** Actually, if Gandalf ''had taken the Ring for himself'' he would have been on equal with Sauron. The books actually cut away, not explicitly showing the confrontation and having the Witch-King leave Gandalf in whatever state he had been in when the Rohirrim arrived. It was simply the possible interpretation that worked best on film.

*** Samwise owned those films, no two ways about it. Taking over the world, enslaving mankind, killing everyone and everything on the planet, sure. But you even ''think'' about hurting Frodo, and Samwise Gamgee will f*** ing cut you.

* Théoden's speech to Saruman in the ruin of Isengard. Saruman's just spent a few pages using his magic to sweet-talk the entire army of ''extremely'' ticked-off Rohirrim to leave him alone. He's got them eating out of his hands when he asks Théoden whether they will have peace. Théoden promptly tells him where to shove it. "When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Orthanc."

-->'''Frodo:''' Go back to the land of {{Mordor}}! And follow me no more!
-->'''Nazgúl:''' The Ring! The Ring! To Mordor we will take you!

* The original publication of LotR is a CMoA in itself. Co-founder Stanley Unwin published ''TheHobbit'' on his ten-year-old son's recommendation (believing that children were a good judge of good children's books), and commissioned a sequel which eventually became LotR, which his now-grown son called a work of genius and recommended as well - even though they might lose money on it. His father [[DoingItForTheArt gave him the go-ahead]]. (The first print run, 3,500 copies, sold out within six weeks.)

* The Moria-quest "We cannot get out" in TheLordOfTheRingsOnline, where you get to take control of Ori, one of the dwarves of Balin's expedition to Moria. After the death of Balin, the remaining dwarfs decide to make a last stand against the orcs of Moria. The quest ends with the player writing the [[{{ApocalypticLog}} last passage]] in the Book of Mazarbul, before the chamber is flooded with orcs and Balin's expedition is wiped out. While it may sound like a DownerEnding, being able to make a last, heroic stand in the chamber of Mazarbul and watching a good number of orcs fall before you is, to this troper, one of the absolute highlights of the game. Also awesome because it depicts an event not invented for the game, but actually one of the tiny bits of backstory that is briefly touched upon in the books.

* The Moria-quest "We cannot get out" in TheLordOfTheRingsOnline, where you get to take control of Ori, one of the dwarves of Balin's expedition to Moria. After the death of Balin, the remaining dwarfs decide to make a last stand against the orcs of Moria. The quest ends with the player writing the [[{{ApocalypticLog}} last passage]] in the Book of Mazarbul, before the chamber is flooded with orcs and Balin's expedition is wiped out. While it may sound like a DownerEnding, being able to make a last, heroic stand in the chamber of Mazarbul and watching a good number of orcs fall before you is, to this troper, one of the absolute highlights of the game.

* Say what you will about [[{{Narm}} the Balrog]], but Ralph Bakshi's ''[[Animated/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]]'' had one moment that was just plain better than the equivalent scene in Jackson's trilogy.

* [[Animated/TheReturnOfTheKing Where There's A Whip, There's A Way]].

!!Crowning Moment Of Awesome in Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''

!!Crowning Moment Of Awesome in adaptions

* A small one by comparison to all that's gone before, but still sweet: when Sam decides that after all he's been through, literally going to Hell and back, he will be ''damned'' if he's too scared to go talk to a ''girl''.

** This Troper seriously believes that's the most beautiful scene ever filmed.

** The Entire Battle of Pelennor fields chapter is one of these. BigDamnHeroes? A truly epic one (the charge of the Rohirrim) then an even more epic one (Aragorn's arrival). Eowyn and Merry klling the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Witch-King of Angmar]] on solely HeroicResolve. And all the speeches Theoden and Eomer give, which frankly inspire one to go out and fight evil on horseback with a sword. It also helps that Tolkien describes the battle in huge amounts of detail, it's every phase and movement catalogued, with his usual mastery of language making it one of the fiiest chapters of his entire Legendarium.